The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.

MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE
ssns Notable wsdliass and Their Rsssltsia tAs
Early Part Of the Ce.turv.
Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Even our Presidents have poor luck
with their marriages. Washington
married his adopted daughter, who
was his wife's grandchild, to his own
nephew, and the last I heard of them
was the sale to the Government OF
some Of Washington's old furniture
by the posterity. John Adams had
daughter named Abigail, who mar
ried q young revolutionary officer
named Smith. In taking care of Smith,
who was but mediocre, Adams incurred
many enmities.
The ladies may be further interested
in the subject of the marriages of i'm.
portant people. Mr.. Jefferson had
very interesting daughters, and they
married Virginia politicians around
him to very little satisfaction in at
least one case. Maria, the best look
ing of the girls, died in 1S4O. Her hus-
band had been a sporting man and
horseman, and it appears that both
the s0ns-in-law of Jefferson required
Endorsements, ETC., which brought the
old mans gray hairs down to mendi.
cancy, in addition to his own finan-
cial errors.
Aaron Burr, on the other hand, had
one daughter, and she made a brilliant
marriage, but it was her father who
involved her and her husband in his
INSCRIPTIONS financial and political
tricks, ruined her husband, and when
she embarked from South Carolina
with her child to seek her father, she
met somewhere in this world All ago.
nizing death; it is legend that pirates
took the vessel and made this brill
liant young women and her child walk
the plank. No evidence, however, ex-
lists on the subject except hearsay; at
that time there were pirates and pira-
teers.
The most brilliant marriage ever
made in the political circles of the
country in the times of Washington
was that of Ann Willing to William
Bingham. They married early in
those days, especially where there was
money, and Ann Willing married at
sixteen. Her husband was descended
from Quaker blacksmith, but his
family had for four generations made
prosperous marriages, and during our
revolutionary war the husband got
out of the country and held a posi-
ton OF half British, half American
consul in one of the West India ISL
ands to which privateers resorted.
He came home very rich and received
as we'll the Bingham moneys, and he
chose the daughter of Willing, who
was President of the United States
bank and business partner of Robert
Morris. The Vikings were the finest
people in Philadelphia. The present
Secretary Bayard is descended from
one of them. Freshly married in her
bloom, the bride and husband went to
Europe and remained away five years.
They were introduced at the court of
the French king by Minister Adams,
and the young man was greatly ad-
mired as the first American ever seen
abroad. When he returned, at the com.
mencement of Washington's admins
tration, they built the finest house ev-
er seen in Philadelphia up to that time
and not excelled perhaps in the pres
ent day. 1t was filled with the best
furniture to be bought in France and
with the best pictures from Italy.
Along came young Barring, the English
banker, and saw tho daughter of this
pair 50 superbly brought up with q
town house and country house. and
he married her; and the larger portion
OF the Bingham property, which
amounted to 81, 1000, 900 in money,
went to swell the capital Of the Bar
ings: The young mother, however,
having lost herself in society, caught
cold in an imperfect dress one night
and was seized with consumption
and she died in the West Indies at an
early age. She had sister of whom
great things were expected, but along
came a dissolute French nobleman
without any standing or property,
and he tempted this girl to go out with
him one night and he kept her out all
night, to the horror and wonder OF the
town, and then made a compromise
with her parents whereby they gave
him money to send her home; she was
| divorced by legislature, her father hav.
! ing become United States Senator, and
so little was made of the matter by
the Barring family that she was solicit
ed in marriage by her brother-in-law
Barring, and after living with him until
his decease she married another French
noblcman and passed out of notice.
President Taylor's daughter ran
away with Jefferson Davis. President
| Monroe's daughter married her cousin,
and they have left some descendants
at Washington and in the State OF
Maryland. Nellie Grant is the last
Presidents daughter to draw atten-
ton: She saw a young, bright-faced
Englishman on q steamboat and fell in
love with him without much reason or
inquest, and he turned out to be ap-
pacently sort of boys companion,
huruly ever looking up to the digninty
OF acqua,ntance with grown men. He
therefore seeks his pleasure in London
when ne has money to spend, and she
stays at home with her baby.
The marriage of Blaine's son is a
testimony to the beauty, modesty
and sweetness of Mrs. Nevins, the
mother OF the bride, who has been too
much esteemed ON all these points for
her daughter to pass into nothingness.
In this case we know what the poet
means when he says:
thing OF beauty is Joy forever;
| It's lovliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A Story of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Among the "Recollections of Emf
nent Men" by the late Edwin p. Whip.
pie, the genial and gifted critic, is a
story about Emerson that illustrates
in droll fashion the impression made
by the transcendent al philosopher
upon the bucolic M ind:
The raciest testimony that ever
came within my knowledge to the
soundness of Emerson in practical